Philosophic truth is to be sought in the
presuppositions of language rather than in its express
statements. For this reason philosophy is akin to poetry,
and both of them seek to express that ultimate good sense
which we term civilization.

The paradox which wrecks so many promising theories of
education is that the training which produces skill is so
very apt to stifle imaginative zest. Skill demands
repetition, and imaginative zest is tinged with
impulse.